Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure (GGGMI)

March 10, 2023

United Nations’ World Meteorological Organisation has come up with a new GGGMI to provide better ways of measuring planet-warming pollution and help inform policy choices.
GGGMI will integrate space-based and surface-based observing systems, and seek to clarify uncertainties about where greenhouse gas emissions end up.
GGGMI will build on and expand WMO’s long-standing activities in GHG monitoring, implemented as part of Global Atmosphere Watch, and via its Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System.
The data provided by this platform will be faster and sharper.
Three major GHGs are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide and account for 66% of global warming.
Focus of Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure is to bring back the long-standing auspices of the Integrated Greenhouse Gas Information System, also called IG3IS launched by Global Atmosphere Watch.
The IG3IS was launched to provide information about the distribution of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- It was launched by the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme.